Who knew.. vacuum cleaner collectors!

[poodlesrule]

I found a working brand-name vac at my town reuse & recycle shack, where people drop usable items they want to discard.

I looked ithe model up with a google search, found the manual, etc, and also discovered that there are vac. collectors out there!

One site has users list their stuff:
Tell us about your collection:
(the one user the search hit has 30 listed.. I know who vacs in this house!)
What are your dream machines yet to be found?
What are your earliest and favorite vacuum cleaner memories?

EDIT: look it up yourself, site is www.vacuumland.org


A little spooky, but harmless I guess.

Odd for sure!
'What do you do for fun?"
Oh, uh... I collect vacs!"
Okey Dockey

[Tig]

Vacuum collecting? Wow, that must suck!
(there, it had to be said!) :poke

Look at the bright side. Their houses must be clean enough to eat off the floors.

[Spudman]

Totally strange!
http://www.vacuumland.org/COLLECTIONS/HOOVERCELEBRITY//01@Looking%20in%20the%20Hoover%20Room%20-%20This%20was%20the%20display%20at%20my%20Mom's%20 house,%20in%20Milwaukee...%20However%20in%20June%2 0of%202007,%20I%20packed%20it%20all%20up%20and%20m oved%20to%20Durham,%20NC.%20%20Stay%20tuned%20for% 20pictures%20of%20my%20new%20display...Down%20Sout h!%20@HOOVERCELEBRITY.jpg


And here I thought "polishing up the Kirby" meant something totally different.:socool

[tjcurtin1]

I went to that website and they had a link to the Fret... "look what some other whacknuts are collecting!". Spud, that foto looks eerily familiar :poke http://www.thefret.net/showpost.php?p=41261&postcount=29

[Spudman]

I went to that website and they had a link to the Fret... "look what some other whacknuts are collecting!". Spud, that foto looks eerily familiar :poke http://www.thefret.net/showpost.php?p=41261&postcount=29


Okay, ya got me there...but I don't have mine set up and lit with spot lights.

[Tig]

http://www.vacuumland.org/COLLECTIONS/HOOVERCELEBRITY//01@Looking%20in%20the%20Hoover%20Room%20-%20This%20was%20the%20display%20at%20my%20Mom%27s% 20house,%20in%20Milwaukee...%20However%20in%20June %20of%202007,%20I%20packed%20it%20all%20up%20and%2 0moved%20to%20Durham,%20NC.%20%20Stay%20tuned%20fo r%20pictures%20of%20my%20new%20display...Down%20So uth%21%20@HOOVERCELEBRITY.jpg




Looking at this photo makes me wonder if the owner has a well in his basement...
"It puts the lotion on it's skin..."
:eek: :crazyguy :eek:

[poodlesrule]

Cool things on the site, like a video of a working 1908 vac.

Look at that Surf Green, TV Yellow, Powder Blue or like colors we know and love -no tribal Green yet!

There is a definite sense of nostalgia in this, for other (happier?) times, one's childhood, a loving grandmother, perhaps.

Another aspect is pride in the restoration of an object that was very well made in the first place, unlike many current appliances and their dismal repair records...

[Tig]

Those vacuums remind me of the old phones we had.



There is a definite sense of nostalgia in this, for other (happier?) times, one's childhood, a loving grandmother, perhaps.



Ah, maybe that's why I still love riding a simple steel framed, fixed gear bike, even though I have feather weight carbon fiber gazillion-speed bikes?
Something about the simple days of the past.

http://gallery.roadbikereview.com/data/roadbike/500/Soma3.jpg

[Spudman]

Ah, maybe that's why I still love riding a simple steel framed, fixed gear bike, even though I have feather weight carbon fiber gazillion-speed bikes?
Something about the simple days of the past.



"Steel is real." Maybe that's why I still ride my custom made with Foco tubeset 8 speed steel bike. Like the vacuums that are now made of plastic the oldies were mostly steel...not that I ride a vaccum ya know (I'm mostly a broom man)

[deeaa]

Kinda OT and I'm SURE nobody's interested, but I dunno if I've ever seen a vacuum cleaner like those in the pic...those upright jobs are never used here; instead they are pretty much 100% those models that have this wheeled little pod on the floor following behind and just the long hose you move around. Or built into walls is pretty popular too.

[deeaa]

And yeah...I do believe there's probably nothing on this earth that *somebody somewhere* isn't collecting for a hobby.

[Spudman]

And yeah...I do believe there's probably nothing on this earth that *somebody somewhere* isn't collecting for a hobby.


By Jove, I think you are right. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kopper/3924551639/

[Tig]

By Jove, I think you are right. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kopper/3924551639/

http://board.koffer.ee/files/what_has_been_seen_cannot_be_unseen_695.jpg

[tjcurtin1]

Okay, ya got me there...but I don't have mine set up and lit with spot lights.
So you tell us....:crazyguy

[Tig]

So you tell us....:crazyguy
Secret spy photo: He just leaves them out in the yard except for grass mowing days.
At least they're kept in the shade!
http://www.kingtutbluesband.com/kingtutguitars/assets/galleryscript/images/collection.jpg